Testimony of Healing June 30, 1997 Issue

Several years ago, I found that a lump in my breast was growing...

Janis Anne DeMuth

Several years ago, I found that a lump in my breast was growing, noticeably. Fearing malignancy, I asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. She agreed to treat me and asked me to set aside a time every day to pray and study. As I did this, I realized that a strong sense of self—self-centeredness, self-justification, self-will, and so forth—needed to be replaced with a spiritual perception of my individuality as the image and likeness of God.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy states: "Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death" (p. 242). With this statement as a basis for my prayer, I began to be less willful and more loving.

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